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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12th
February to Question 218262 on UK-France Migration Committee, for what reason the
dates and locations of those meetings were not provided in the answer.

<p>As previously advised in the response to Question 218262, the UK-France Migration
Committee meets on a bi-monthly basis and is hosted alternately by the UK Home Office
and French Interior Ministry. It is not Home Office policy to release detailed information
on meetings that ministers and/or officials attend</p><p><br>As regards payments to
the French Government, no additional payments have been made beyond those detailed
in the response to Question 217548, dated 12th February 2019.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12
February 2019 to Question 217548 on Human Trafficking and Immigration: France, whether
any other payments in cash or kind have been made to France in connection with (a)
border security, (b) infrastructure and (c) countering organised crime and people
trafficking in addition to those set out in that answer.

<p>As previously advised in the response to Question 218262, the UK-France Migration
Committee meets on a bi-monthly basis and is hosted alternately by the UK Home Office
and French Interior Ministry. It is not Home Office policy to release detailed information
on meetings that ministers and/or officials attend</p><p><br>As regards payments to
the French Government, no additional payments have been made beyond those detailed
in the response to Question 217548, dated 12th February 2019.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether universal credit claimants
are able to deduct the tax relief claimed by relief at source pension schemes from
their earned income figure to calculate their award of universal credit.

<p>100% of contributions to employer pension schemes, whether Net or Relief at Source
pensions, will be taken into account when calculating the level of employed earnings
in UC. This means that a UC claimant that contributes to either type of pension will,
automatically (where employers report the information correctly), have their UC entitlement
calculated on their taxable pay, after their pension contribution. This ensures fairness
for all affected UC employed claimants.</p><p> </p><p>If there is some discrepancy
in the way in which it’s reported, DWP will manually ensure that the Relief at Source
pension contribution is deducted before any UC entitlement is calculated on their
employed earnings.</p>

<p>We have checked the records that the department has kept since the introduction
of the Cabinet Office guidance on settlement agreements on 1 February 2015 and confirm
that we have one record, of using an NDA with a departmental staff member in July
2015.</p><p>The use of this NDA was unintentional i.e. the standard NDA paragraph
was accidently left in the template by mistake. We are not aware of the Home Office
using NDA for departmental staff other than this since the new guidance was introduced.
However, the records examined were cross-matched from several different data sets,
assembled for different purposes. As there were some gaps in the data sets, while
we are confident this was the only instance, we cannot guarantee that we were able
to identify every case.</p>

<p>Data for the numbers of assaults and serious assaults in each prison, broken down
by type of weapon and type of injury, is set out in the attached tables. The figures
are presented by calendar year rather than by quarter. This is because analysis at
the level of detail requested produces many results of 5 or fewer. Disclosure-proofing
to reduce the risk of identification, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998,
requires such low numbers to be suppressed. Even at the annual level, some such values
have had to be suppressed.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is taking unprecedented action
to improve safety in prisons. We have recruited over 4,700 more prison officers since
October 2016, and we now have the greatest number in post since early 2012. The Challenge,
Support and Intervention Plan case management process for prisoners at risk of violence
has been mandated for all prisons to help staff to manage violent prisoners and those
identified as posing a raised risk of being violent.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing
an extra £70 million to improve safety, security and decency, and equipping officers
with PAVA incapacitant spray and body-worn cameras to help prevent serious harm to
staff and prisoners when dealing with violent incidents. We are improving perimeter
security and introducing new x-ray scanners, drug-detection dogs and dedicated search
teams to address the supply of drugs that we know are fuelling much of the violence
in custody.</p>

<p>Data for the numbers of assaults and serious assaults in each prison, broken down
by type of weapon and type of injury, is set out in the attached tables. The figures
are presented by calendar year rather than by quarter. This is because analysis at
the level of detail requested produces many results of 5 or fewer. Disclosure-proofing
to reduce the risk of identification, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998,
requires such low numbers to be suppressed. Even at the annual level, some such values
have had to be suppressed.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is taking unprecedented action
to improve safety in prisons. We have recruited over 4,700 more prison officers since
October 2016, and we now have the greatest number in post since early 2012. The Challenge,
Support and Intervention Plan case management process for prisoners at risk of violence
has been mandated for all prisons to help staff to manage violent prisoners and those
identified as posing a raised risk of being violent.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing
an extra £70 million to improve safety, security and decency, and equipping officers
with PAVA incapacitant spray and body-worn cameras to help prevent serious harm to
staff and prisoners when dealing with violent incidents. We are improving perimeter
security and introducing new x-ray scanners, drug-detection dogs and dedicated search
teams to address the supply of drugs that we know are fuelling much of the violence
in custody.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department has
taken to locate the 114 documents in relation to child sexual abuse and hon. Members
which were misplaced by his Department.

<p>In February 2013, the Permanent Secretary commissioned an investigation into information
the Home Office received in relation to child abuse allegations, between 1979 and
1999. That investigation was unable to locate 114 potentially relevant Home Office
files.</p><p>On 7 July 2014 the Home Secretary appointed Peter Wanless and Richard
Whittam QC to carry out an independent review of the 2013 investigation.</p><p>On
29 July 2014, the Home Office Permanent Secretary directed that a physical search
targeted on specific areas of the Department be undertaken to see if any of the 114
missing files could be located. This did not uncover any of the 114 missing files,
though one was found prior to this exercise. As part of their Review, Wanless and
Whittam interrogated what was known about each of the 114 files. They published their
analysis within their final report, published November 2014.</p>

<p>The DBS are committed to providing a full end to end service in Welsh. Advice is
available to Welsh DBS users at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service/about/welsh-language-scheme#dbs-certificates"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service/about/welsh-language-scheme#dbs-certificates</a></p><p>The
DBS also provide a dedicated Welsh language phone line available to support applicants.
This can be found at: 03000 200 191</p><p>At present a Welsh application route is
available for the disclosure Basic check service. DBS are currently transitioning
their IT services to new suppliers and are exploring alternative options to deliver
new online Welsh language applications for Standard and Enhanced checks.</p>

<p>The DBS are committed to providing a full end to end service in Welsh. Advice is
available to Welsh DBS users at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service/about/welsh-language-scheme#dbs-certificates"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service/about/welsh-language-scheme#dbs-certificates</a></p><p>The
DBS also provide a dedicated Welsh language phone line available to support applicants.
This can be found at: 03000 200 191</p><p>At present a Welsh application route is
available for the disclosure Basic check service. DBS are currently transitioning
their IT services to new suppliers and are exploring alternative options to deliver
new online Welsh language applications for Standard and Enhanced checks.</p>